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$210,000 BMW carjacked at petrol station

A 24-year-old BMW owner was in a state of shock after being carjacked by two armed men at a Sydney service station overnight.

The Kogarah Bay man had just driven his $210,000 BMW 6 Series convertible into the Budget Petrol service station at Lewisham when he was confronted by the balaclava-clad bandits about 11.15pm.

"Within half a minute he had two guys at him, one pointing a gun [and they] wrestled him to the ground, demanded the keys and just took off. Easy as that," said a service station attendant who was not on duty at the time but had seen CCTV footage of the carjacking.

"[The driver] just gets up off the floor and watches his car take off. He comes into the service station. He was just in a state of shock," the attendant, who asked not to be named, said.

The car was brand new and the driver was a regular customer at the petrol station, the attendant said.

The attendant on duty immediately pressed a panic button, which alerted police to the attack, he said.

Police set up a crime scene and spoke to a number of witnesses but are appealing for anyone else with information to come forward.
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There have been a spate of cajackings across Sydney over recent months - particularly for top-range, high-speed vehicles capable of outrunning police in a car chase.

A number of carjacked vehicles have been used as getaway cars following armed hold-ups and ram-raids where ATMs are stolen.

One of last night's carjackers was described to police as being 170-180 centimetres tall with thin to medium build. He was last seen wearing a black balaclava, blue hooded jumper with white lining, black pants and running shoes.

The other offender was wearing a black balaclava, blue jumper with a white vertical stripe on the sleeve, tan three-quarter length shorts and white shoes at the time of the incident.

Source: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...?oneclick=true

hmm didnt the same thing happen to a SL65 owner in Sydney? same gang perhaps.

Perhaps Snake can tell us more but this is an awful incident.

Nah, this is news to me as well!

But these things have been getting on the news lately, whether that's just a factor of it becoming more newsworthy, or carjackings actually increasing, possibly as a factor of copycat criminals who realise that it's actually not that hard as such.

That really sux. What could he do? If the gun was real and the criminal willing to use it - which, in the heat of the moment you had best think so - better the car taken than being shot.

Prevention is better - go to larger (don't know what sort of petrol station it was, but Budget? Umm, doubt it's going to be large..) stations, at better locations, at more normal hours. That's about all you can do.

I was going to ask why a guy with a new 6er convertible was in a Budget petrol station anyway, but hey even owners of expensive cars like cheap petrol..

I drive pass Lewisham everyday, and it is not a suburb u want to be in while driving in an expensive BMW. There has been a wave of car jacking incidents in Sydney in the past 4-5 months, and the police still hasn't found out who the bastards were. They only target luxury cars. i think it all started when the gang 1st carjacked a black SL65 while the owner is driving from his garage. The car was later found competely torched. Within a week or 2, a guy was being followed back home and they took his SL55 AMG away. About 2 weeks after that, another SL55 owner noticed he was being followed by some strangers, so he drove like mad to the nearest police station. A few weeks have gone pass before the gang attack again, this time they track down the owner of a brand new Porsche 997. The owner return home one night and the group of bastards started to attack him. a few men punched and kicked him around while the owner was on the ground holding his keys. All of this was going on while one of the car jackers was pointing a gun at the owner's head. He pressed the alarm button, and they got scared away. But that didn't stop them from launching more carjacking. Just late last month, the gang carjacked a CLK 350, and now they got themselves a brand new 6 series.

I honestly can't believe all this is happening, and i hope the police will get off their arse and do something about it, because i lived near where they do all the carjacking and ram-raiding. I actually drove pass one of their ram-raiding crime scene. NRMA, Australia's largest insurance group, has warned the police about the increasing rate of carjacking, but as usual the police did nothing

This is for sure the same group, what a bunch of a-holes. I hope the police in Sydney are taking this more seriously, they aren't jacking Ford Festiva's here. This is getting extremely serious!

A Audi RS6+ was stolen here in Sweden and the police found the car today
See link: http://www.sos-stockholm.se/forum/showthread.php?t=466

the guys that stole the car visited the dealer during the day. One of the guys stole the key while the other one talked to the salesman and at night they went back to the dealer and stole the car.

JUST_ME... Thats crazy that happened... This whole theft thing is out of control. At least they quickly recovered the car... what the hell is going on in Sydney... are teh police in on it?

you sell cars, right?
Are you careful when someone comes to buy a car?

Im not a sales person.... im the finance manager for the company. We have hundreds of cars ont he lot, never has that happened. Porters misplace keys, but never have a situation of people stealing keys.